Dragging over success
Well what a fabulous week last week was! I ran hot and made money every night. A break really does work. I have done no poker study and if anything have probably forgotten some things but i played reaonably tight and simply tried to make the money.
After acheiving that goal i would simply goal for top 45, top 27 and so on.
I even made the final table in the Stars $20 with 1 rebuy final table 2 nights in a row. Needless to say i am well chuffed.
That however is where it ends..... kind of. I bragged a bit and gawped at my ROI of nearly 300% on OPR, then the next week i put in ridiculous hours and played several tournaments where i was tired and actually fell asleep in bed at 3 SNG's. I played drunk after coming in from the pub and in all did all the things i promised i would not do.
Needless to say this resulted in a poor run. I corrected it rather quickly but my poor performance did not. I spent the next week in loss. I lost about $1000 from my lovely bankroll on Pokerstars. I offset this slightly by chopping a prize for 1st and 2nd in a $20 freezeout on Party Poker where i had gone to play in my melancholy one afternoon. Even so there were clearly problems; i don't go from making $4500 one week to losing $600 because of luck.
There were 2 reasons for my bad run and i thank myself for noticing them quickly.
1) I was playing too many games at once and this meant i was not watching players and consequently not making notes and attacking the wrong players and playing too prescriptively.
2) I had gone into, what i shall call 'hero mode'. Having had a rush and thinking, allbeit subconciously, that i was invincible and on the rise i had begun to call re raises and firing out bigger and bigger bullets on each street if called down by someone. I was convinced i could out bet and outplay everyone and i was losing some big pots and some good deep tourney positions.
This had to stop. To be fair, as i write now it still hasn't but hopefully this is part of the reworking process. I am certainly better at self control this week than last.
After acheiving that goal i would simply goal for top 45, top 27 and so on.
I even made the final table in the Stars $20 with 1 rebuy final table 2 nights in a row. Needless to say i am well chuffed.
That however is where it ends..... kind of. I bragged a bit and gawped at my ROI of nearly 300% on OPR, then the next week i put in ridiculous hours and played several tournaments where i was tired and actually fell asleep in bed at 3 SNG's. I played drunk after coming in from the pub and in all did all the things i promised i would not do.
Needless to say this resulted in a poor run. I corrected it rather quickly but my poor performance did not. I spent the next week in loss. I lost about $1000 from my lovely bankroll on Pokerstars. I offset this slightly by chopping a prize for 1st and 2nd in a $20 freezeout on Party Poker where i had gone to play in my melancholy one afternoon. Even so there were clearly problems; i don't go from making $4500 one week to losing $600 because of luck.
There were 2 reasons for my bad run and i thank myself for noticing them quickly.
1) I was playing too many games at once and this meant i was not watching players and consequently not making notes and attacking the wrong players and playing too prescriptively.
2) I had gone into, what i shall call 'hero mode'. Having had a rush and thinking, allbeit subconciously, that i was invincible and on the rise i had begun to call re raises and firing out bigger and bigger bullets on each street if called down by someone. I was convinced i could out bet and outplay everyone and i was losing some big pots and some good deep tourney positions.
This had to stop. To be fair, as i write now it still hasn't but hopefully this is part of the reworking process. I am certainly better at self control this week than last.
posted by Stephen Daughton at 7:14 pm
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